The story
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (dCprG) is a Japanese experimental afro-jazz/"rock-in-opposition"/fusion supergroup, formed in 1999 by renowned saxophonist Naruyoshi Kikuchi after Tipographica break-up. The band's original line-up, with two performers on each instrument except bass, featured Naruyoshi's bandmates from Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet and members of several other prominent Tokyo underground groups: Rovo, Kuricorder Quartet and Asteroid Desert Songs. In July 1999, DCPRG gave its first live performance, praised by critics and listeners for the fierce energy and innovative sound, inspired by Miles Davis in the '70s "electric funk" period, Japanese composer Masabumi Kikuchi and Afro-jazz polyrhythms. The band's iconic feature was a "multi-BPM" technique, with each musician keeping a different tempo and creating unique cross-rhythmic structures. In the summer of 2001, a reputable Japanese label P-Vine Records presented two debut studio works by DCPRG, a 30-min composition on 3584500 split CD with Rovo, followed by the band's full-length 459509 studio CD album. In 2002, Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden produced GRPCD1 compilation, featuring seven remixes by Otomo Yoshihide, , , duo, Tsutomu Kuwata under alias, and .
DCPRG continued touring with an extended horns section: Koji Nishimura, Kunimitsu Kohata and Shiro Sasaki on trumpets and Takerou Sekijima on tuba. The band released its second studio CD album, 228002, on P-Vine in September 2003, with Jason Shalton replacing Otomo on guitar, while Sekijima, Sasaki and Taisei Aoki (trombone) joined DCPRG permanently. In September 2004, the group's CD mini-album with covers of "Stayin' Alive" by Bee Gees and David Bowie's "Fame" and the 2-nd part of Kikuchi's debut composition for DCPRG, "Pan-American Beef Stake Art Federation," was jointly released by P-Vine and .
In 2007, following the third studio album, 5314076 2xCD, which also became the last release for P-Vine Records, Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden went on a hiatus that lasted over three years. The band's live tour history between June 2001 and April 2007 has been documented on a three-part cycle, starting with 2265019 2xCD on P-Vine in June 2003, featuring Tokyo shows at in Shibuya, , and . The second 'live report,' MUSICAL FROM CHAOS 2 CD+DVD, came out in March 2005 on a Japanese label Triad, with concerts recorded at Seibu Kodo, and . The concluding 3615423 DVD was published by P-Vine in December 2007, compiling live excerpts filmed at various venues across Japan, such as , Club Quattro in Shibuya, Nagoya and Hiroshima, , Kyoto University, , , and .
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